Well.. Pirated Kotor 1 & 2, Dragon Age Origins/Awakenings, Mass Effect 1 & 2 + DLC = hundreds... I'd like to support Bioware this time and whenever I can on Steam (Kotor 1 so far)..
11 years later, I recapture my favorite MMO by playing on an emulator server that mimics (pretty closely) the classic Everquest experience. (www.project1999.com)
If these companies came at us with a business model that made sense with what they are consistently giving us. If you want to sell a stable, well produced game lacking in some features (or with not everything you intended)~ I think they should reconsider and make it something along the lines of Guild Wars, pay once for the game and then incrementally charge per expansion, no monthly costs.
Like Global Agenda, a lot of games are coming out like this. A central hub, auto-grouping features and bam right in the action. I love this, but then again, it's not the same as a well produced immersible world etc I don't recall paying for games that were like this when I was younger.
During the Lady Vox encounter in Everquest over ten years ago, I was a young lad who had just risen his first wizard to a high enough level to participate. We lost, but only by 1%. I then realized I was casting Ice Comet which was completely resisted by Vox as I checked over the damage log. We spent 5 hours in corpse-retrieval, lost 1.5 levels and missed the bus for school. If I had only used a fire-based spell, we all would have won and been happyface.
The possibilities are endless. I think this is a great direction for the industry to head into. If you log into some etherverse from whence you could choose multiple portals (games/realms/worlds/genres etc) to experience. Like downloaded content most likely. Not so bad imo.
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